English

hate-crime

From hate + crime.

A compound of hate + crime

Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂d- ‘angriness, hatred’

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Proto-Germanic *hatāną ‘to hate’

Proto-West Germanic *hatēn

Old English hatian ‘to hate’

Middle English haten

English hate

Latin crīmen ‘charge, crime’

Old French crime

Middle English cryme ‘crime’

English crime

Today it means

noun To subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hate-crime